Sunday, November 17 1996; Page A01
First of Four Parts
On the streets of Manila, "jump boys" as young as 10 hop in and out of traffic selling Marlboros and Lucky Strikes to passing motorists. In the discos and coffee shops of Seoul, young Koreans light up foreign brands that a decade ago were illegal to possess. Downtown Kiev has become the Ukrainian version of Marlboro Country, with the gray socialist cityscape punctuated with colorful billboards of cowboy sunsets and chiseled faces. And in Beijing, America's biggest tobacco companies are competing for the right to launch cooperative projects with the state-run tobacco monopoly in hopes of capturing a share of the biggest potential market in the world. Continue
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November 12, 1999
ST. PAUL, Minn. - They called it "the secret of Marlboro."
R.J. Reynolds was desperate in the mid-1970s to learn why its leading brand, Winston, was losing market share to Philip Morris' Marlboro. So were other tobacco companies that were losing out in a ruthlessly competitive business. Continue
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September 1, 1996
The Reagan administration’s Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) pressures several countries—under threat of sanctions—to open their markets to American cigarettes: Japan in September 1986, Taiwan in late 1986, and South Korea in May 1988. By 1991, sales of American cigarettes in these new markets are 600 percent higher than they would have otherwise been without US intervention, according to the Boston-based National Bureau of Economic Research. Continue
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September 1, 1996
In a clear demonstration of how U.S. trade policy gives undue preference to the U.S. tobacco industry, the Reagan administration recently threatened Japan, Taiwan and South Korea with trade sanctions if they didn't increase imports of American cigarettes and, in the case of Taiwan, remove a prohibition on cigarette advertising. Continue
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Philip Morris International admitted to using ammonia to make its cigarettes more addictive, the Sydney Morning Herald reported July 27. Continue
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